The Vestigial Heart_A Novel of the Robot Age by Carme Torras
Author:Carme Torras [Torras, Carme]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bioethics; robotics; ethics; artificial intelligence; science fiction; research; emotion; evolution; 21st century; computer science; human mind; creativity; robots; mutation; future; prosthesis; controversy; jobs; experimentation; values; digital; privacy, science fiction
ISBN: 9780262037778
Goodreads: 36722615
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2018-04-13T00:00:00+00:00
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To Celia this particular school day feels longer and more boring than usual. It seems the day will never end, and the time that Lu is coming to pick her up isnât getting any closer.
For hours sheâs resisted the temptation to tell Xis where sheâs going, but in the end sheâs succumbed, and her friendâs revelation that CraftER is the company her mother works at has really surprised her. What a mistake! Since she found out she hasnât stopped begging Celia to pay close attention to everything so she can tell her about it later; sheâs never been allowed to go. As far as she knows, the building is immense, and itâll be difficult to find her, but, just in case, she told her excitedly, her mother is blonde, not very tall, this morning she was dressed in red, and her name is Sus. This has made Celia even more nervous. She doesnât want anyone muscling in on her adventure.
She can see herself walking along beside that good-looking engineer, past a series of prodigious machines, half-finished inventions, mysteries to be uncovered ⦠the physics of miracles, as her father would say, and Leo, perfectly kind, will show her first one, then another, heâll explain what she has to do, answer her questions, until the crucial moment when he invites her to sit downâor maybe sheâll have to lie down?âso he can set up the devices, or put a helmet on her, or whatever. All his attention will be focused on her. Sheâll feel so important once sheâs contributed to technological progress!âher father would be proudâand what luck that the reliable pair of hands wonât belong to a disheveled, crazy-faced old man like the experts in her science book, but those of an attentive and slightly shy young man she is so desperate to see again.
EDUsysâs insistent demands bring her back down to earth about ten minutes before Lu is due to arrive. Finally the time has passed, but after so much whispering to her friend and creating her own distractions, sheâs been reprimanded so many times that she fears her teacher might make the most of Luâs visit to share a few of his observations. And she ends up underestimating him, as on top of the usual accusations of a lack of interest in learning and a strong resistance to letting go of old-fashioned and now pointless knowledge, he finishes with a threat: the school wonât add even one more day to the period of adaptation than, by law, itâs obligated to provide.
Plunged into a tense silence, the journey in the aeroâcar would have been impossible for the two of them had it not been so short. ROBul is an expert pilot and in seconds theyâre hovering in front of an imposing building, that to Celia looks like a giant, golden pinecone, planted stem-side down with its scales opened up and some pine nuts still attached. Itâs nice to look at, even though so much brightness is a bit blinding.
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